2024-25: Phantoms (AHL), Reading Royals (ECHL), NCAA, Jrs., Int'l, etc.

[JojoTheWhale]

Why should I despair?
Either they turn it around and the young guys are back on track or they pick high.
It's win-win.

I'm sorry. I can't resist a polite oppurtinity this snarky.

Exactly. This is why the Sabres are in great shape.

 

[deadhead]

I'm sorry. I can't resist a polite oppurtinity this snarky.

Exactly. This is why the Sabres are in great shape.

Buffalo is sui generis, I think they've traded away more good players than the rest of the league combined.

The hardest part during a rebuild is being patient, NJ traded Zacha (#6) b/c they got tired of waiting, and he's doing fine in Boston. It's easy to get frustrated with players when you start slowly, but they're not trying to win anything, so there's no excuse to panic (the big part of announcing a rebuild is to take the pressure off your GM to do "something, anything" when you start losing).

Now there are times when it makes sense to trade my headache for your headache, I could see a Frost and Laughton for Cozens type deal, for example.

 

[mja]

Why should I despair?
Either they turn it around and the young guys are back on track or they pick high.
It's win-win.

Yay, more Cutter Gauthiers and Jett Lunchankos!

By the time this team figures it out, you'll be long dead and I'll be getting damned close to it.

 

[deadhead]

Yay, more Cutter Gauthiers and Jett Lunchankos!

By the time this team figures it out, you'll be long dead and I'll be getting damned close to it.

I'd love to land a few more Jetts, give me a high IQ, really fast forward group and all I need are a couple guys like Michkov and TK.

Even if you're incredibly lucky like NJ (#1 twice), you have to build a team, most of their key players are from trades (Meier, Markstrom, Haula, Cotter, Kovacevic) and older free agents (Hamilton (31), Palat (33), Noeson (31), Tatar (34), Dillon (34), Seigenthaler, Pesce. That's because they've missed on a number of top ten picks (Zacha #6, Holtz #7, McLeod #12, Smith #17).

If the Flyers were to tank, what are the odds they'd end up with the next Bedard v the next Kakko?

Anaheim is now in their 7th year of their playoff drought:
Zegras (#9), Drysdale (#6)/Gauthier, McTavish #3, Mintyukov #10, Carlsson #2, Sennecke #3.

So of course their best players are Terry #148, and Dostal G #85.

They also added a lot of veterans, Strome (31), Killorn (35), Vatrano (30), McGinn (30), Fabbri (29), Fowler (33), Dumoulin (33), Gudas (34).

Silly me, I thought rebuilding teams traded all their veterans, instead of adding them?

 

[mja]

I'd love to land a few more Jetts, give me a high IQ, really fast forward group and all I need are a couple guys like Michkov and TK.

Even if you're incredibly lucky like NJ (#1 twice), you have to build a team, most of their key players are from trades (Meier, Markstrom, Haula, Cotter, Kovacevic) and older free agents (Hamilton (31), Palat (33), Noeson (31), Tatar (34), Dillon (34), Seigenthaler, Pesce. That's because they've missed on a number of top ten picks (Zacha #6, Holtz #7, McLeod #12, Smith #17).

If the Flyers were to tank, what are the odds they'd end up with the next Bedard v the next Kakko?

Anaheim is now in their 7th year of their playoff drought:
Zegras (#9), Drysdale (#6)/Gauthier, McTavish #3, Mintyukov #10, Carlsson #2, Sennecke #3.

So of course their best players are Terry #148, and Dostal G #85.

They also added a lot of veterans, Strome (31), Killorn (35), Vatrano (30), McGinn (30), Fabbri (29), Fowler (33), Dumoulin (33), Gudas (34).

Silly me, I thought rebuilding teams traded all their veterans, instead of adding them?

Nope, not falling for this, I have better things to do with my time.